[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 159 (Friday, September 29, 2023)]
[House]
[Pages H4900-H4901]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            DON'T SHUT DOWN

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I, too, want to acknowledge our great 
President Jimmy Carter and thank him for his life and service.
  It is becoming that we stand on the floor today to be able to speak 
in contrast to the generosity of the Carters to where we are today 
because we are supposed to be saving America.
  Frankly, we now have a challenge where the Republican leadership 
cannot even find a way to stop the government from shutting down. I 
think if the American people knew what their plan was, you might ask 
the question: Is it possible to lead in this way?
  Attacking the National Institutes of Health, that is what they are 
doing.
  They are cutting education and dollars for disabled children and 
taking money away from 150,000 teachers who

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I will be engaging with in my hometown by phone.
  Of course, they are not recognizing the needs of energy support for 
those low-income families and not helping those communities that are 
suffering every day from natural disasters. We know the West has 
suffered from fires. We in the southwest have suffered from floods.
  Of course, they are disrespecting the needs of Israel and Ukraine.
  This is not the American way, and now we are gone because the bill 
they put up could not even get the Republican votes.
  Let's do what is right for the American people. Don't shut down. 
Stand up for the American people.

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